Kepple Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Tokyo, Japan, that provides seed-, early-, and later-stage financing to African startups, with a focus on information technology, fintech, and consumer sectors.

Flat6Labs is a Cairo-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm and accelerator in the MENA region. Since 2011 it has built a network of startup programs that support entrepreneurs from pre-seed through pre-Series A, and operates offices across the region including Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Jeddah, Manama, and Tunis. The firm regularly funds more than 100 startups annually and provides a range of investment tickets from 50,000 to 500,000, supported by a broad investor network and extensive mentorship, investor, and corporate connections. Flat6Labs focuses on accelerating the growth of technology-driven startups by combining capital with mentorship, partnerships, and opportunities to scale regionally.

IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.

A15 is a venture capital firm based in Cairo, Egypt that invests in digital products and technology brands across North Africa and the Middle East, with a focus on Egypt. It supports portfolio companies with capital and ecosystem resources, helping them scale and expand into regional markets.

Novastar Ventures is a Kenya-headquartered venture capital firm focused on early to growth capital for businesses that serve Africa’s mass market. Founded in 2014, it operates from Nairobi with additional offices in Lagos and London, and partners with entrepreneurs to develop innovative business models that improve outcomes in healthcare, education, agriculture, energy, housing and sanitation, financial services, information technology, and consumer products. The firm concentrates on bottom-of-the-pyramid markets across East and West Africa and beyond, emphasizing solutions that drive value for the many rather than the few. It positions itself as a venture catalyst rather than a traditional fund manager, providing hands-on support to entrepreneurs to bring ideas to life and scale impact. Typical investments range from about $0.25 million up to $8 million, and the firm pursues investments that combine commercial returns with ESG and social impact.

Ingressive Capital is a Lagos-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies across Africa. It pursues pre-seed to seed investments in fintech, SaaS and cloud, internet, health tech, and agritech, with a pan-African footprint including investments in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. The firm backs indigenous founders and aims to be a strategic partner on founders' cap tables, supporting growth through transformational tech-enabled solutions and contributing to Africa's value-chain development and GDP growth. By prioritizing B2C solutions for Africa's youth and B2B platforms that enhance value-chain ownership, Ingressive Capital seeks to accelerate entrepreneurial success across the continent.

Egypt Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Cairo, Egypt. It prioritizes technology sector investments and supports the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators that nurture early-stage startups.

Beyond Capital Fund is an impact investment organization based in New York, established in 2009. It makes for-profit, early-stage investments in startups in East Africa and India, targeting health care access, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion to improve the lives of people in low-income communities. The fund seeks market-rate returns but is structured as a nonprofit, which allows it to emphasize its social mission alongside its financial mandate.

Shorooq Partners is a venture capital and alternative investment manager founded in 2017, focused on technology-driven companies in the Middle East and North Africa and beyond. The firm invests through venture capital and private credit funds, with expertise across fintech, platforms, software, gaming and Web3.0, and an emphasis on crypto and climate technologies. It maintains a pan-regional presence with offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Riyadh, Cairo and Seoul, reflecting a cross-border approach. Shorooq Partners aims to be founders' partners, builders and value investors, backing market-moving startups across the region.

DisrupTech Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Giza, Egypt, founded in 2021. It invests in early-stage technology startups, with a primary focus on financial technology and fintech-enabled digital services, particularly in Egypt.

AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region, based in Cairo, Egypt. It connects American University in Cairo alumni and friends with early-stage startups, building an active pipeline for angel investments, facilitating deal flow, and supporting startups through seed funding and post-investment guidance. In partnership with AUC Venture Lab, it provides access to vetted startups that have launched products and shown traction, with strong growth potential. The network helps startups develop robust investment cases through business and finance training, contributing to a dynamic Egyptian entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Launch Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ebene, Mauritius, founded in 2020. It invests in early-stage technology and platform-enabled businesses across Africa, with a focus on fintech, healthtech, climate tech, agritech, edtech, transportation, logistics, mobility, e-commerce, software as a service, artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics, spanning both business-to-business and business-to-consumer models.

Algebra Ventures is a Cairo-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology investments in the Middle East and North Africa. It targets Series A and Series B opportunities across sectors such as fintech, consumer internet, e-commerce, online marketplaces, and other technology-enabled businesses. The firm primarily backs startups in Egypt and nearby markets, with a footprint in Jordan, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, and Morocco. It seeks high-potential teams with a clear value proposition and the ability to scale, typically taking minority positions and making checks ranging from about 0.1 million to 4 million USD. Algebra Ventures emphasizes supporting capable founders and pursuing ventures that can generate meaningful regional impact and economic returns.

Founded in 2022, Nclude is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. It focuses on investing in early-stage and growth-oriented fintech and fintech-enabled startups based in Egypt and the Middle East & Africa region.

Renew Capital is a venture capital firm focused on Africa, headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, established in 2007, that finances businesses operating in the impact and technology sectors across the continent and seeks to bridge critical gaps for Africa's growing companies by connecting them to a global network of impact investors.

Endeavor is a nonprofit organization that supports high‑impact entrepreneurs through a global network spanning nearly 40 countries. It backs more than 2,000 entrepreneurs whose companies generate over $28 billion in combined revenues, employ more than 3.9 million people, and attracted more than $4 billion in capital in 2020. The organization offers an entrepreneur‑first model that connects founders with mentors, peers, and opportunities to scale and pay it forward. Its global ecosystem includes affiliates such as Endeavor Miami, which focuses on early‑stage technology firms and reflects the network’s regional and sectoral reach.

Edventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Nahdet Misr Publishing House, based in Giza, Egypt. It incubates, accelerates and invests in startups operating in education, culture and innovative learning solutions, focusing on seed and pre-Series A rounds with emphasis on Egypt, Africa and the Arab World. It provides technical and financial support tailored to each company's needs and maturity level to help ensure market success and continuity.

Uncovered Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Tokyo, Japan. It targets early-stage startups and concentrates its investments in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, spanning sectors such as retail, fintech, health tech, logistics, mobility as a service, agritech, and smart city initiatives.

BECO Capital is a Dubai-based venture capital firm that provides growth capital and hands-on operational mentorship to early-stage technology companies in the Middle East and North Africa. It focuses on seed and early-stage investments in mobile, Internet of Things, software as a service, and other technology sectors, supporting entrepreneurs to scale their businesses across the region.

CVentures is the corporate venture capital arm of Commercial International Bank of Egypt, based in Cairo. It invests in seed to Series B rounds in technology and fintech startups, with an emphasis on financial services platforms. The unit targets opportunities in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa, seeking minority stakes and strategic collaboration to help portfolio companies scale. Its focus spans financial services technology, information technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, blockchain, cybersecurity, insurtech, and marketing technology, reflecting a broad tech thesis. CVentures supports bold entrepreneurs with disruptive models and growth potential across local and cross-border ecosystems.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

Inspired Evolution Investment Management is a Cape Town-based private equity and venture capital firm focused on sustainable energy and environmental technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2007, the firm targets growth-oriented opportunities across clean energy, energy efficiency, water treatment, waste management, sustainable agriculture, and related infrastructure. It provides equity capital across multiple stages, often acting as a lead investor and taking board seats in portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes both financial returns and measurable development outcomes, and it generally targets markets in Southern Africa with broader engagement across Africa. In addition to capital deployment, Inspired Evolution offers advisory services to support growth and sustainability strategies. The firm operates offices in Mauritius, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and London, enabling cross-border collaboration and sourcing opportunities.

The Raba Partnership is a venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa, focused on African technology companies in logistics, supply chains, and financial services. It partners with founders building technology companies that tackle hard problems in emerging African ecosystems and is backed by a select group of venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs, and families with global business experience.

Founders Factory builds and funds startups by pairing capital with hands-on support. Founded in 2015 in London, it operates as an accelerator and venture builder, investing in fintech, health, climate, and deeptech. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs and leading corporate partners to develop ideas, technologies, and business models, providing capital and tailored operational support from a team of specialists and a broad network. It has backed hundreds of technology companies worldwide through its accelerator and venture-building programs.

EFG EV Fintech is a Cairo-based startup accelerator focused on fintech and related sectors, including insurtech, regtech, proptech, blockchain, and infratech. Backed by EFG Hermes and Egypt Ventures, it runs an integrated program that supports startups through funding, mentorship, training, and office space, with the aim of strengthening the domestic fintech ecosystem and facilitating expansion to international markets.

Equator Venture Capital is a Nairobi-based venture capital investment firm founded in 2023 that backs technology-enabled, early-stage ventures in energy, agriculture, and mobility. Its portfolio targets startups advancing an equitable climate transition and inclusive economic growth across Sub-Saharan Africa. The firm emphasizes climate-positive sectors and supports growth with a team of technologists, operators, and experienced investors who have a track record of scaling early-stage ventures in the region.

Seedstars is a Geneva-based venture capital and accelerator firm focused on emerging and frontier markets. It funds and accelerates high-growth technology ventures at the pre-seed and seed stages and operates programs to support entrepreneurship across regions including Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. The firm targets sectors such as financial services, healthcare, education, energy, information technology, and other technology-enabled solutions, and it runs initiatives and events to help startups scale, create impact, and access global networks.

Norrsken22 is a technology growth investment firm based in Cape Town, founded in 2016, that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build Africa's next tech giants. It pursues growth and expansion investments across Africa, with a focus on medtech, edtech and fintech, and broader technology-enabled sectors such as information technology, business products and services, and health tech. The firm targets opportunities across key African hubs including Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Ghana, supporting portfolio companies through scalable expansion and strategic growth.

Silverbacks Holdings is a venture capital firm based in Cybercity Ebene, Mauritius, founded in 2019. It invests in sports, technology, and entertainment sectors across Africa, supporting portfolio companies with capital and strategic guidance to scale within the continent.

Foundation Ventures is a venture capital company based in Cairo, Egypt, established in 2018. It makes early-stage and growth investments in technology-enabled companies, supporting portfolio firms as they scale. The firm helps founders access a broad regional network of distribution channels and market opportunities, enabling rapid expansion across the Egyptian market and neighboring regions. Foundation Ventures focuses on identifying ambitious teams building industry-defining products and providing strategic backing to accelerate growth, scale operations, and capture regional demand.

Adanian Labs is a venture studio based in Nairobi, Kenya. Established in 2020, it focuses on nurturing early-stage startups into scalable, data-driven businesses, primarily in Africa. The company aims to build innovative solutions across various sectors such as healthcare, technology, agriculture, and education.

Camel Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on fintech investments. Sources describe the firm as Cairo-based, active in Egypt and across Africa, pursuing fintech startups in the region. Some listings identify Camel Ventures as Israel-based, reflecting possible cross-border operations or affiliations.

VNV Global is a Stockholm, Sweden–based investment company focusing on growth capital, venture investments, and select buyouts in unlisted online marketplaces, as well as consumer-focused and business-to-business companies. It targets ventures with strong network effects and potential for value creation, investing across incubation, seed and startup phases through late-stage venture and growth opportunities. The firm seeks significant minority or majority stakes and actively manages its portfolio through board representation, pursuing global opportunities (excluding China).

Seedra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm established in 2019 and based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The firm is dedicated to fostering disruptive innovations and trends throughout the region, focusing on sectors such as business-to-business, commercial services, business-to-consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare, and technology. Seedra Ventures aims to provide venture-building services and strategically invests in companies within Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, supporting their growth and development in a dynamic marketplace.

Endure Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. It backs early-stage startups and partners with resourceful, mission-driven founders who solve meaningful problems and aim to build durable, high-growth companies with global reach, focusing on technology and innovation that can generate positive societal impact.

Cubit Ventures is a Cairo-based venture capital firm that backs seed- and early-stage technology startups in North Africa and the Middle East, with an additional office in Minneapolis. The firm targets software, information technology, fintech, consumer tech, healthcare technology, and other tech-enabled sectors across the region. By leveraging a network of mentors and investors, Cubit Ventures supports portfolio companies through early growth stages and digital transformation initiatives in Egypt and neighboring markets.

Sunu Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Nairobi, Kenya. It invests in companies across the global south that aim to create a more prosperous, inclusive, and self-sustaining future. The firm provides tailored investments and leverages its network to offer additional capacity and capital, helping portfolio companies grow and prepare to access follow-on funding. Sunu Capital emphasizes long-term partnerships and responsive support to enable ambitious companies to pursue game-changing opportunities.

LoftyInc Capital is a venture capital firm based in Victoria Island, Lagos, focused on Africa's growth enterprises. Over the past decade it has invested over $25 million in more than 150 companies, including several unicorns, and attracted over $1.5 billion in follow-on funding to its portfolio. It has built an ecosystem of tech hubs, angel networks, and talent platforms to support portfolio companies. The firm has achieved multiple exits and delivered strong returns across its Afropreneurs funds.

Sequence Ventures is a Cairo-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests in seed and early growth DeepTech startups. It focuses on defensible technologies that address global challenges through scalable, R&D-driven innovations.

Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Founded in 2018, it focuses on investing in technology companies and supporting founders and ideas across emerging markets. The firm is described as having a diverse, collaborative team with experience in building and scaling companies.

FrontEnd Ventures is a Nairobi-based venture capital firm that provides capital and strategic support to tech-enabled startups across East Africa. The firm focuses on backing local and diverse founder teams that are passionate about innovating and transforming value chains in the region.

Africa Oil Corp is a Canadian oil and gas company with assets in Kenya and Ethiopia and Puntland in Somalia through its 41% equity stake in Africa Energy Corp. Its East African holdings form part of a prolific exploration play along the East African Rift Basin, with a land position exceeding 200,000 square kilometers. In Kenya’s Lokichar basin, the company holds a 50% interest alongside operator Tullow Oil, supporting ongoing exploration in the region.

Incofin Investment Management is an impact investment manager focused on financial inclusion in developing countries. The firm manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions and aims to reach rural populations and smallholder farmers by providing access to credit, savings and insurance through MFIs and related financial services. It also invests in rural and agricultural SMEs, cooperatives and intermediaries servicing the agricultural value chain, using debt, guarantees and equity to support growth. Headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with offices in Bogota, Chennai, Nairobi, Luxembourg and Phnom Penh, it seeks to deploy capital in regions including Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, prioritizing rural and underserved markets. The firm partners with MFIs and other funds, sometimes taking board seats, to promote financial inclusion while maintaining a focus on sustainable development.

HOF Capital is a global multistage venture capital firm that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO. It invests across seed to late-stage rounds in technology companies, focusing on B2B and B2B2C models. The firm backs nascent technologies with potential to address major social challenges, including artificial intelligence software, next-generation finance, genetics and computational biology, and operates across markets in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Israel, the United Kingdom, and Egypt. Headquartered in New York with offices in London and Cairo, it maintains a global footprint and is backed by a broad network of influential families and organizations. The firm supports entrepreneurs in enterprise software, AI, frontier tech, consumer tech, and fintech across stages, from early funding to growth.

Future Africa is a Lagos, Nigeria-based venture capital firm and collective of mission-driven founders and funders dedicated to supporting Africa’s startups. The organization invests across a broad range of sectors including technology, software, data and artificial intelligence, agriculture and environment, e-commerce and consumer goods, education, finance and blockchain, health and wellness, mobility and logistics, media and entertainment, real estate, food and hospitality, and infrastructure. It seeks to build unicorns and advance purpose-driven prosperity across the continent, aiming to solve Africa’s biggest challenges by backing innovative ventures with strong growth potential. Through its network and capital, Future Africa supports entrepreneurs at various stages, fostering scalable businesses that can contribute to economic development and job creation.

Jedar Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage startups across fintech, insure-tech, health-tech, food-tech, B2B, SaaS, retail, e-commerce, logistics, supply chain and marketplaces, with a regional focus on the Middle East, Africa and Emerging Asia, and it is headquartered in the New York region with a presence in Cairo and Cape Town.

AlphaMundi is a Swiss-based impact investing company that provides debt and equity financing to profitable, scalable ventures across sectors such as fintech, rural microfinance, smallholder agriculture, renewable energy access, and affordable housing and education for low-income communities. It is exclusively dedicated to impact investing, seeking financial returns together with measurable social and environmental benefits. The firm supports development-focused ventures through dedicated investment programs and co-investments, aiming to broaden the integration of impact considerations into traditional investment portfolios. AlphaMundi also engages in education, publications, and industry initiatives to advance the field of impact investing and to promote sustainable development within financial markets.

Africa Media Ventures Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Almere, Netherlands, that invests in media-focused ventures and small to mid-sized African media companies, providing capital and business development support, with investments typically between 20,000 and 200,000. It focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Kenya and Ghana, and its investors are experienced media entrepreneurs who participate in the management of portfolio companies through visits and board roles.

Orbit Ventures is an emerging markets venture capital firm that invests in technology companies aiming to digitize traditional industries and improve living standards in a sustainable way. The firm supports portfolio companies through a comprehensive, long-term program that includes partnerships, business development, fundraising and growth assistance, along with initial investment and subsequent follow-on funding. Its investment focus spans digitalization across e-commerce, fintech, media, healthcare, education, and logistics.